Re: 5.4.188 and later: massive performance regression with nfsd

[Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

> On May 20, 2022, at 7:43 PM, Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 20, 2022, at 6:24 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 21:52 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On May 20, 2022, at 12:40 PM, Trond Myklebust
>>>> <trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 15:36 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 11, 2022, at 10:36 AM, Chuck Lever III
>>>>>> <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On May 11, 2022, at 10:23 AM, Greg KH
>>>>>>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 02:16:19PM +0000, Chuck Lever III
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On May 11, 2022, at 8:38 AM, Greg KH
>>>>>>>>> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:03:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Walter
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> starting with 5.4.188 wie see a massive performance
>>>>>>>>>> regression on our
>>>>>>>>>> nfs-server. It basically is serving requests very very
>>>>>>>>>> slowly with cpu
>>>>>>>>>> utilization of 100% (with 5.4.187 and earlier it is
>>>>>>>>>> 10%) so
>>>>>>>>>> that it is
>>>>>>>>>> unusable as a fileserver.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> The culprit are commits (or one of it):
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> c32f1041382a88b17da5736886da4a492353a1bb "nfsd: cleanup
>>>>>>>>>> nfsd_file_lru_dispose()"
>>>>>>>>>> 628adfa21815f74c04724abc85847f24b5dd1645 "nfsd:
>>>>>>>>>> Containerise filecache
>>>>>>>>>> laundrette"
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> (upstream 36ebbdb96b694dd9c6b25ad98f2bbd263d022b63 and
>>>>>>>>>> 9542e6a643fc69d528dfb3303f145719c61d3050)
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> If I revert them in v5.4.192 the kernel works as before
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> performance is
>>>>>>>>>> ok again.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I did not try to revert them one by one as any
>>>>>>>>>> disruption
>>>>>>>>>> of our nfs-server
>>>>>>>>>> is a severe problem for us and I'm not sure if they are
>>>>>>>>>> related.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 5.10 and 5.15 both always performed very badly on our
>>>>>>>>>> nfs-
>>>>>>>>>> server in a
>>>>>>>>>> similar way so we were stuck with 5.4.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I now think this is because of
>>>>>>>>>> 36ebbdb96b694dd9c6b25ad98f2bbd263d022b63
>>>>>>>>>> and/or 9542e6a643fc69d528dfb3303f145719c61d3050 though
>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>> didn't tried to
>>>>>>>>>> revert them in 5.15 yet.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Odds are 5.18-rc6 is also a problem?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> We believe that
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 6b8a94332ee4 ("nfsd: Fix a write performance regression")
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> addresses the performance regression. It was merged into
>>>>>>>> 5.18-
>>>>>>>> rc.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And into 5.17.4 if someone wants to try that release.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't have a lot of time to backport this one myself, so
>>>>>> I welcome anyone who wants to apply that commit to their
>>>>>> favorite LTS kernel and test it for us.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> If so, I'll just wait for the fix to get into Linus's
>>>>>>>>> tree as
>>>>>>>>> this does
>>>>>>>>> not seem to be a stable-tree-only issue.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I've received a recent report that the fix
>>>>>>>> introduces
>>>>>>>> a "sleep while spinlock is held" for NFSv4.0 in rare cases.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ick, not good, any potential fixes for that?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Not yet. I was at LSF last week, so I've just started digging
>>>>>> into this one. I've confirmed that the report is a real bug,
>>>>>> but we still don't know how hard it is to hit it with real
>>>>>> workloads.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We believe the following, which should be part of the first
>>>>> NFSD pull request for 5.19, will properly address the splat.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=556082f5e5d7ecfd0ee45c3641e2b364bff9ee44
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Uh... What happens if you have 2 simultaneous calls to
>>>> nfsd4_release_lockowner() for the same file? i.e. 2 separate
>>>> processes
>>>> owned by the same user, both locking the same file.
>>>> 
>>>> Can't that cause the 'putlist' to get corrupted when both callers
>>>> add
>>>> the same nf->nf_putfile to two separate lists?
>>> 
>>> IIUC, cl_lock serializes the two RELEASE_LOCKOWNER calls.
>>> 
>>> The first call finds the lockowner in cl_ownerstr_hashtbl and
>>> unhashes it before releasing cl_lock.
>>> 
>>> Then the second cannot find that lockowner, thus it can't
>>> requeue it for bulk_put.
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something?
>> 
>> In the example I quoted, there are 2 separate processes running on the
>> client. Those processes could share the same open owner + open stateid,
>> and hence the same struct nfs4_file, since that depends only on the
>> process credentials matching. However they will not normally share a
>> lock owner, since POSIX does not expect different processes to share
>> locks.
>> 
>> IOW: The point is that one can relatively easily create 2 different
>> lock owners with different lock stateids that share the same underlying
>> struct nfs4_file.
> 
> Is there a similar exposure if two different clients are locking
> the same file? If so, then we can't use a per-nfs4_client semaphore
> to serialize access to the nf_putfile field.

I had a thought about an alternate approach.

Create a second nfsd_file_put API that is not allowed to sleep.
Let's call it "nfsd_file_put_async()". Teach check_for_locked()
to use that instead of nfsd_file_put().

Here's where I'm a little fuzzy: nfsd_file_put_async() could do
something like:

void nfsd_file_put_async(struct nfsd_file *nf)
{
	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&nf->nf_ref))
		nfsd_file_close_inode(nf->nf_inode);
}

--
Chuck Lever